{"id":21529,"date":"2020-06-19T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=21529"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:59:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T16:59:14","slug":"preminuo-janos-m-bak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=21529","title":{"rendered":"Preminuo J\u00e1nos M. Bak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U 91. godini umro je 18. lipnja povjesni\u010dar J\u00e1nos M. Bak (1929-2020), professor emeritus Srednjoeuropskog sveu\u010dili\u0161ta u Budimpe\u0161ti (CEU), koji je intenzivno sura\u0111ivao s mnogim hrvatskim medijevistima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>J\u00e1nos M. Bak (1929-2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J\u00e1nos M. Bak, founding member and Professor Emeritus of CEU&#8217;s Department of Medieval Studies has passed away on June 18, at the age of 91. Until the last moment of his life, he was an engaged scholar, an authoritative and caring professor, an indefatigable worker for an international cooperation for the advancement of learning and the broadening of the \u2018Republic of Letters\u2019. When mourning and remembering him, let us recall a few things of his rich, adventurous, life \u2013 the <em>Festschrift<\/em> he received from us when he was 70, was entitled <em>The Man of Many Devices, Who Wandered Full Many Ways&#8230;<\/em> The adventures started towards the end of World War II, when he had to survive as a teenager the Holocaust, with tricks and hiding in Arrow-Cross dominated Budapest. Subsequently, after a brief period of enthusiastic conversion to Marxism, he quickly got disillusioned from the unfolding Stalinist regime, and he became an active participant in the 1956 revolution. At its defeat he left Hungary and earned a medieval studies doctorate in G\u00f6ttingen, as a pupil of Percy Ernst Schramm. As a postgraduate, he spent two years in Oxford, then worked at the University of Marburg, and published a much-cited monograph on \u2018Kingdom and estates in late medieval Hungary\u2019. In 1966 he moved to the US and subsequently to Canada, he became professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. As a member of the world-wide community of 1956 \u00e9migr\u00e9 intellectuals, he was very active in supporting Hungarian colleagues with books, invitations, scholarships, publication opportunities. At the same time, he became a major organizer in international medieval studies. After some years of investment into the history of \u2018East-Central Europe\u2019, and \u2018peasant studies\u2019, in the 1980s he organized Majestas, a scholarly association for the study of rulership, which functioned for two decades, organized many successful conferences and published a review with the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he retired as Professor Emeritus from Vancouver in 1993, it was not for having a rest, but for joining a new, ever-more demanding academic adventure: building a Department of Medieval Studies at the recently founded CEU in Budapest. He brought home his world-wide network and made the largest contribution in turning our department a thriving new center in this field. And this was not only thanks to his high-class German and American experience, but above all thanks to his passionate engagement with the wonderful, passionate, enthusiastic international group of our graduate students. Like probably all other departments in CEU, our seminars became fascinating scholarly workshops combining hidden treasures of local knowledge with high standards of cutting-edge international scholarship. And, in all this, J\u00e1nos was a lively, critical, once funny and cheerful, other times nervous and grumpy participant, sometimes scaring students to death with angry explosions, but then giving them due respect, fatherly protection and friendly encouragement \u2013 multiple generations of students are weeping now over this departure. The efficient and warmly human impact on the formation of future scholars was paired by his tireless organizational drive: after Majestas he initiated research projects on the comparative history of medieval nobility, on the \u2018uses and abuses\u2019 of the Middle Ages, on source-repertory handbooks. He started a bilingual source edition series entitled Central European Medieval Texts (11 volumes at CEU Press), he published in 5 volumes the \u2018Laws of Medieval Hungary\u2019. He retired form CEU as Professor Emeritus in 2007, but he kept being active: he played a key role in the foundation of MECERN, Medieval Central European Network in 2014 \u2013 he corrected the proofs of his chapter in a new OUP Handbook on Medieval Central Europe last week, a few days before his death. He had several injuries during the past years, he walked with a stick, but he took the effort, until this winter, to come to CEU for listening to the MA or PhD defenses of his students, or to hear the public lectures of his younger colleagues or his friends, colleagues from the world-wide company. We were exceptionally fortunate to have him as a friend and a colleague for three decades, his departure is a great loss for us, for CEU and for medievalist scholarship around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To conclude this obituary, let me quote the words of our rector, Michael Ignatieff: \u201cI knew Janos for 40 years, as a scholar, friend, bon vivant, intellectual provocateur. He embodied the spirit of CEU at its best: morally serious, intellectually irreverent, and fiercely loyal to ideals. We will all miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And another word by Patrick Geary: \u201cMay his memory be a blessing for us all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>G\u00e1bor Klaniczay,&nbsp;<em>Head of the Department of Medieval Studies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Izvor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceu.edu\/article\/2020-06-19\/janos-m-bak-1929-2020\">https:\/\/www.ceu.edu\/article\/2020-06-19\/janos-m-bak-1929-2020<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti","category-obavijesti-o-smrti-i-nekrolozi"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Bak.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52459,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52459","url_meta":{"origin":21529,"position":0},"title":"Jay Winter: geometrija sje\u0107anja i logika ti\u0161ine \/ Dijalog s povodom 10","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"16. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"U izdanju FF Pressa i Centra za inovativne studije Filozofskoga\u00a0fakulteta u Zagrebu potkraj 2025. objavljena je knjiga Jay Winter: geometrija sje\u0107anja i logika ti\u0161ine, koju je priredio Dino Stani\u010di\u0107. 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